| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 6 | 10 | 17 | 9 |
| Political Science | 253 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities | 285 | 25 | 36 | 13 |
The main research concerns discussed in Policing & Society are Criminology, Public relations, Law, Public administration and Social psychology. The featured Criminology research zeroes in on concepts in Criminal justice but also tackles themes under Suicide prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Domestic violence. Community policing is a major topic of Public relations research.
The main emphasis of Policing & Society is the research on Law, emphasizing the topic of Law enforcement. Corporate governance, State (polity), Accountability and Democracy, Politics are some topics wherein Public administration research discussed in Policing & Society have an impact. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Politics but it intersects with the subject of Political economy.
Social psychology and Perception are closely related fields of research discussed in it.
The most cited publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Public relations, Criminology, Law, Public administration and Social psychology. The Public relations research tackled in the published articles is interrelated with Police science which concerns subjects like Social work and Criminal justice ethics. The published articles focus on Criminology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Ethnic group and Politics.
The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Criminology, Public relations, Procedural justice, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Public administration. In Policing & Society, Legitimacy and Government are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Criminology research. Topics in Government were tackled in line with various other fields like Indigenous, Aotearoa, Community building and Social control.
Some problems in Public relations that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Discretion, New public management, Service (business), Social media and Police legitimacy. The close relationship between Compliance (psychology) and Social work is one of the points of interest dissected in Procedural justice research. The work on Public administration tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Law enforcement and Corporate governance.
A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.
The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.
The top authors publishing in Policing & Society (based on the number of publications) are:
The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.
Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered
The top affiliations publishing in Policing & Society (based on the number of publications) are:
The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.
The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.
The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.
During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.77% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.45% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.16% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 26.53% of all publications and 42.86% were from other institutions.
A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.
The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.
The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.
Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).
The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
Molly McCarthy;Kristina Murphy;Elise Sargeant;Harley Williamson
(2021)A. Kyprianides;B. Bradford;M. Beale;L. Savigar-Shaw
(2021)Linda Duxbury;Anne Bardoel;Michael Halinski
(2021)Julian Laufs;Kate Bowers;Daniel Birks;Shane D. Johnson
(2021)Kristina Murphy;Natasha S. Madon;Adrian Cherney
(2020)Kath Murray;Susan McVie;Diego Farren;Lauren Herlitz
(2021)Jerry H. Ratcliffe;Ralph B. Taylor;Ryan Fisher
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